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AutoREALM has a large assortment of icons, or symbols, that can be placed on a map. There are three toolbars that control adding icons to your map.
Icon Placement
These tools control how icons are placed on the map. The actual icon placed is selected with the Icon Pages, below. The size of each icon is set via the Icon Settings toolbar. For Square Array, Diamond Array, and Random, the spread between multiple icons is also set in the Icon Settings toolbar.
Single Each click of the mouse puts one icon on the map.
Square Array Hold down the mouse button and draw to place multiple icons in a square pattern (orchards, grids, etc.).
Diamond Array Hold down the mouse button and draw to place multiple icons in a diamond pattern (fields, marshes, etc.).
Random Hold down the mouse button and draw to place icons randomly (mountains, etc.).
Icon Settings
These tools control the size and spread of icons.
When you select an object, the icon size slider (but not the spread) changes to reflect that object's size. New objects are added with the current icon size. And if you change the icon size slider while objects are selected, those objects will be changed to the new size.
Size Controls the size of the icon. AutoREALM uses two different ways to express icon sizes, which can be changed in Settings. To change items already placed on the map, select them first, then change the icon size slider.
Spread For tools that place more than one icon, this slider changes the distance between icons (the spread). You cannot change the spread between icons once they have been placed; delete the icon group, and re-add it.
Icon Pages
Select the icon to be placed using the Icon Pages toolbar. The icons are grouped into several pages. You can use the left and right scroll at the upper right corner of the toolbar to see more pages. There may be more icons than can fit on each page. Scroll through the icons on that page with the small arrows along the edges of the icons.